Numbers 24:25
Good News Translation
Then Balaam got ready and went back home, and Balak went on his way.

New Revised Standard Version
Then Balaam got up and went back to his place, and Balak also went his way.

Contemporary English Version
After Balaam finished, he started home, and Balak also left.

New American Bible
Then Balaam set out on his journey home; and Balak also went his way.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Balaam rose, and returned to his place: Balac also returned the way that he came.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Balaam rose, and returned to his place: Balac also returned the way that he came.

Numbers 24:1 And when Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord that he should bless Israel, he went not as he had gone before, to seek divination: but setting his face towards the desert,

Israel at Shittim commit whoredom and idolatry

Numbers 24:6 As woody valleys, as watered gardens near the rivers, as tabernacles which the Lord hath pitched, as cedars by the waterside.

Phinehas kills Zimri and Cozbi
10 God therefore gives him an everlasting priesthood
16 The Midianites are to be vexed

Shittim

Numbers 33:49 And there they camped from Bethsimoth even to Ablesatim in the plains of the Moabites,

Joshua 2:1 And Joshua, the son of Nun, sent from Setim two men, to spy secretly: and said to them: Go, and view the land, and the city of Jericho. They went, and entered into the house of a woman that was a harlot, named Rahab, and lodged with her.

Joshua 3:1 And Joshua rose before daylight, and removed the camp: and they departed from Setim, and came to the Jordan: he, and all the children of Israel, and they abode there for three days.

Micah 6:5 O my people, remember, I pray thee, what Balach, the king of Moab, purposed: and what Balaam, the son of Beor, answered him, from Setim to Galgal, that thou mightest know the justice of the Lord.

the people

Numbers 31:15,16 Said: Why have you saved the women? . . .

Ecclesiastes 7:26 And I have found a woman more bitter than death, who is the hunter's snare, and her heart is a net, and her hands are bands. He that pleaseth God shall escape from her: but he that is a sinner, shall be caught by her.

1 Corinthians 10:8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them that committed fornication: and there fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

Context
Balaam's Final Three Oracles
24They shall come in galleys from Italy, they shall overcome the Assyrians, and shall waste the Hebrews, and at the last they themselves also shall perish. 25And Balaam rose, and returned to his place: Balac also returned the way that he came.
Cross References
Numbers 24:14
But yet going to my people, I will give thee counsel, what this people shall do to thy people in the latter days.

Numbers 25:1
And Israel at that time abode in Settim, and the people committed fornication with the daughters of Moab,

Numbers 24:24
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